RESTful Contracts with Work from Home Options

RESTful
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 187 117
Rank change year-on-year +37 -70 +8
Contract jobs citing RESTful 218 312 979
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.48% 1.31% 2.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.86% 5.22% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 236 701
10th Percentile £370 £353 £381
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £685 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 17
10th Percentile - - £51.50
25th Percentile £75.00 £64.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £67.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +5.93% +54.27%
75th Percentile £87.50 £69.50 £68.00
90th Percentile £89.00 - £72.93
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year +6.67% +18.58% +50.60%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

RESTful falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,723 5,975 13,044
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 25.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 4,481 9,688
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.50
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

RESTful
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RESTful trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing RESTful.

RESTful daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing RESTful over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

RESTful daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing RESTful.

RESTful hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.75%) Confluence
3 4 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.38%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.38%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.92%) Apache
5 2 (0.92%) CMS
5 2 (0.92%) WordPress
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.46%) Drupal
6 1 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.29%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.46%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (35.32%) AWS
2 53 (24.31%) Azure
3 24 (11.01%) GCP
4 20 (9.17%) Serverless
5 17 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.05%) GitHub
7 10 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.13%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (3.67%) npm
10 7 (3.21%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.75%) Power Automate
11 6 (2.75%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.75%) PowerApps
12 5 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.29%) PaaS
12 5 (2.29%) SaaS
13 4 (1.83%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.84%) HTTP
2 3 (1.38%) BGP
2 3 (1.38%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (1.38%) Firewall
2 3 (1.38%) IOS XR
2 3 (1.38%) SSL
2 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.93%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.55%) MongoDB
2 23 (10.55%) NoSQL
3 20 (9.17%) Relational Database
4 17 (7.80%) MySQL
4 17 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (3.67%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.75%) Power BI
8 4 (1.83%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.83%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.38%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.38%) Redis
10 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.92%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.92%) Tableau
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.46%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (16.97%) Git
2 16 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.88%) JIRA
4 8 (3.67%) Android Studio
4 8 (3.67%) Selenium
5 7 (3.21%) Mockito
6 5 (2.29%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.83%) Babel
7 4 (1.83%) GitLab
7 4 (1.83%) webpack
7 4 (1.83%) Xcode
7 4 (1.83%) XCUITest
8 3 (1.38%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.38%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.38%) HP UFT
8 3 (1.38%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (1.38%) Postman
8 3 (1.38%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.92%) Appium
General
1 64 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (11.93%) Finance
4 23 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.34%) Banking
6 11 (5.05%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.83%) Electronics
7 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.83%) Marketing
8 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.38%) Retail
9 2 (0.92%) Front Office
10 1 (0.46%) Advertising
10 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Publishing
10 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (51.83%) Developer
2 27 (12.39%) Software Engineer
3 21 (9.63%) Senior
4 20 (9.17%) Architect
5 15 (6.88%) Scala Developer
6 14 (6.42%) Software Developer
7 12 (5.50%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.05%) Lead
8 11 (5.05%) Python Developer
8 11 (5.05%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.05%) Site Engineer
8 11 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) Android Developer
9 10 (4.59%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) .NET Developer
10 9 (4.13%) Full Stack Developer
11 8 (3.67%) AWS Developer
11 8 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.21%) Development Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.97%) Node.js
2 36 (16.51%) CSS
3 35 (16.06%) HTML
4 33 (15.14%) .NET
4 33 (15.14%) React
5 26 (11.93%) Kafka
6 25 (11.47%) Web Services
7 22 (10.09%) Spring
8 21 (9.63%) AngularJS
8 21 (9.63%) SOAP
8 21 (9.63%) Spring Boot
9 20 (9.17%) JSON
10 17 (7.80%) REST
10 17 (7.80%) XML
11 16 (7.34%) Akka
11 16 (7.34%) jQuery
12 14 (6.42%) FastAPI
13 13 (5.96%) OAuth
14 12 (5.50%) Play Framework
15 11 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.47%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (10.09%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.26%) Data Structures
4 14 (6.42%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.29%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.38%) Verilog
7 3 (1.38%) VHDL
8 2 (0.92%) Contactless
8 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.92%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (0.92%) IVR
8 2 (0.92%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.46%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.46%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.17%) Linux
2 15 (6.88%) Android
3 11 (5.05%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.29%) Windows
5 3 (1.38%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.38%) Unix
6 2 (0.92%) VMS
7 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (33.49%) Agile
2 59 (27.06%) CI/CD
3 57 (26.15%) Microservices
4 53 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (22.94%) DevOps
6 41 (18.81%) Software Engineering
7 33 (15.14%) Unit Testing
8 29 (13.30%) User Experience
9 28 (12.84%) API Development
10 25 (11.47%) Clean Code
11 23 (10.55%) Full Stack Development
11 23 (10.55%) Scrum
12 22 (10.09%) UX Design
13 21 (9.63%) Test Automation
14 20 (9.17%) SDLC
15 19 (8.72%) Code Quality
15 19 (8.72%) Front End Development
16 17 (7.80%) End-to-End Testing
17 16 (7.34%) API Integration
17 16 (7.34%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 63 (28.90%) JavaScript
2 62 (28.44%) Java
3 56 (25.69%) Python
4 44 (20.18%) SQL
5 29 (13.30%) C#
6 23 (10.55%) TypeScript
7 21 (9.63%) Scala
8 15 (6.88%) Kotlin
9 14 (6.42%) C++
10 13 (5.96%) Shell Script
11 11 (5.05%) Go
12 7 (3.21%) C
13 6 (2.75%) PHP
13 6 (2.75%) Ruby
14 5 (2.29%) PowerShell
14 5 (2.29%) Swift
15 4 (1.83%) Bash
15 4 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.83%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.92%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 33 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.80%) Degree
4 11 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.50%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.67%) QA
3 4 (1.83%) GDPR
4 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.92%) PSD2
4 2 (0.92%) WCAG
5 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (12.84%) Docker
2 11 (5.05%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.38%) vCloud
3 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.38%) VirtualBox
3 3 (1.38%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.38%) vSphere
4 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (16.97%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.88%) Prometheus
3 12 (5.50%) Grafana
4 11 (5.05%) Consul
5 10 (4.59%) Ansible
6 9 (4.13%) Terraform
7 3 (1.38%) Autotask
7 3 (1.38%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.38%) Puppet
7 3 (1.38%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.42%) Oracle
3 13 (5.96%) OpenAI
4 12 (5.50%) Google
5 11 (5.05%) SaltStack
6 7 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.75%) SAP
7 6 (2.75%) TOWER Software
8 4 (1.83%) IBM
9 3 (1.38%) Arista
9 3 (1.38%) BMC
9 3 (1.38%) Cisco
9 3 (1.38%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.38%) Remedy
9 3 (1.38%) Typelevel
9 3 (1.38%) VMware
10 2 (0.92%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.92%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.92%) PayPal
10 2 (0.92%) Xamarin